• Besides Auld Lang Syne
, other popular songs for New Year’s are It was a Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra), Imagine by John Lennon, and What a Wonderful World made popular by Louis Armstrong.
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Given the season, you may already have guessed that “Auld Lang Syne” is the song to which I’m referring.
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In the midst of all the holiday chaos, many Americans still set aside an evening to load the family into the car and drive around to see the neighborhood holiday decorations.
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In the 1840s, a woman named Sarah J. Hale (1788-1879) took up what she felt was an important cause–establishing a national day of thanks. Growing up in New England, Hale had always celebrated Thanksgiving and felt it was a holiday in which the entire nation should share.
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The very name, Alcatraz, stirs fear and a twinge of excitement at the thought of the stories of the men incarcerated there. From 1934 to 1963 Alcatraz Island served as the first maximum security federal prison in the United States. It was hoped that the location would make it escape-proof, and therefore, a good place to put the worst-of-the-worst.
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King Buck (1948-1962), a handsome black Labrador, was a gifted athlete. As a National Duck Retriever champion, he completed an unprecedented 63 series in the National Championship Stake, and in
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